Jane Elizabeth

January 20, 2018

Jane is the director of accountability journalism at the American Press Institute. She joined API in 2014, arriving from the Washington Post where she was deputy Metro editor/digital. She also has been an editor and reporter at four other metropolitan newspapers including the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Virginian-Pilot; and has taught journalism at Old Dominion University, the University of Pittsburgh and Point Park University.

She holds a master’s degree in mass communications from Virginia Commonwealth University, and was a 2017 Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard. With the Poynter Institute, she publishes a weekly newsletter on accountability journalism.

In her spare time, she writes “News from a Friend,” a daily newsletter for non-journalists that’s designed to showcase and explain the day’s top stories from the most reliable news sources.